News 3/27/26

Top News

India-based IT services firm Infosys will acquire Optimum Healthcare IT for $465 million in an all-cash deal.

The seller is private equity firm Achieve Partners, which acquired Optimum in June 2020.

INFY shares have lost 30% in the past 12 months, valuing the company at $54 billion.

Reader Comments

From Purity: “Re: AI. What happens when payer and provider AI systems collide over denials? Hospital AI finds that denials may not be based on rational reason, then the insurer AI sees that and starts randomizing denials to confuse the provider AI?” Payers know that regulators won’t tolerate AI that invents or randomizes denial logic, so payers will keep systems defensible but not necessarily transparent. The battleground will be the rules themselves and how they are applied, which could force greater scrutiny. The likely outcome isn’t chaos, but exposure of a process that feels arbitrary because it is tuned for insurer profit rather than grounded in medical evidence. The only real disruptors, short of federal action, are high-profile patient stories that generate bad press and spook shareholders.

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Acquisitions, Funding, Business, and Stock

Healthcare AI governance platform vendor Qualified Health raises $125 million in Series B funding.

Trovo Health, which offers AI-powered clinical care teams, renames itself Thesis Care and raises a $45 million Series A round.

Dimer Health, which offers AI-supported post-discharge medical oversight, raises $13.5 million in Series A funding.

RCM automation vendor Adonis raises $40 million in Series C funding.

Sales

• Parrish Healthcare (FL) will implement Meditech Expanse.

People

Artera hires Damon Lanphear (Amazon) as CTO and promotes Nicole Ossey to SVP of people.

Announcements and Implementations

Epic-based virtual care provider KeyCare deploys Nvidia’s Nemotron large language model to power its AI-driven patient intake agent that collects information from patients during their pre-visit wait and summarizes it for their clinician.

Artesia General Hospital (NM) integrates Microsoft Dragon Copilot ambient listening with its TruBridge EHR.

Patient financial experience platform vendor Collectly acquires Pledge Health, which offers pre-service patient financial workflow automation.

Government and Politics

A former VA executive who led its Cerner EHR modernization project is indicted for accepting, concealing, and at times soliciting gifts from contractors that were involved in the project. John Windom, who served as executive director of the VA’s EHR modernization effort, faces up to 20 years in prison on charges of falsifying records, making false statements, and concealing material facts. The indictment alleges that he cultivated a group of six contractors, which he called the “Power Group,” who were assigned to him for mentoring related to obtaining government business as minorities. Prosecutors say that he coerced members into providing improper personal benefits and advancing diversity-related objectives that were unrelated to the EHR modernization project.

Health New Zealand warns staff that using free tools to write clinical notes is prohibited due to privacy risks, including drafting notes that are then pasted into official systems.

Florida insurance regulators suspend Mirra Health Care from processing claims for three Medicare Advantage HMOs after learning that the company outsourced the work to unlicensed firms in India and the Philippines

Other

West Suburban Medical Center (IL) temporarily closes after billing system problems reduce revenue by 90%, leaving it unable to cover payroll. Parent company Resilience Healthcare, which also operated the recently shuttered Weiss Memorial Hospital, signed a contract to implement Altera Digital Health’s Paragon EHR in November 2023.

A Redditor posts and then deletes a message describing how they “built an open-source MyChart to Claude connector. You can use it to manage (read/write) all your health records in MyChart from Claude.” Other Redditors were appalled:

• You have a setup that … effectively removes the user’s 2FA protections. Also, you have a button to deploy this on your site that includes an Oauth activation via Gmail, so effectively a user would be tying their Gmail identity together with their MyChart username? If so, you’re in some pretty dicey territory, not even considering Epic’s likely response to this repo and use.
• So you have attempted to reverse engineer Epic’s MyChart internal APIs? I hope you understand how much Epic will not only hate this, but also will go after you. I honestly would recommend taking this down and removing this post here.
• Jesus Christ OP this is a massive risk to patient privacy. I recognize that you’re trying to build something helpful, but healthcare is not the place for the move fast and break things tech mindset … the benefits here are limited whereas you risk exposing essentially all of a patient’s PHI while compromising 2FA protections across potentially multiple accounts.
• Epic already beat you to it with Emmie. Also, you’re better off connecting your data using QHIN and TEFCA authorization. MyChart is hiding a TON of functionality and data from you.
• Has anyone pointed out to you how many HIPAA violations this is?
• Holy f*** this is vibe coded slop. You’re not handling encryption or creds properly whatsoever. There are other violations to PHI protection than storage that you’re committing here.
• Exciting legal consequences ahead for you if this takes off even a little bit, and you deserve every one of them.

Sponsor Updates

• Health Data Movers names Lisa Edler, MBA senior RCM consultant.
• Infinx appoints Jon Vitiello, MBA to its advisory board.
• Consensus Cloud Solutions is named a 2026 CSO Awards winner, which honors organizations that implement innovative cybersecurity initiatives.
• Meditech Chief Nursing Executive Cathy Turner, MBA, RN-BC will present at the ANIA Annual Conference March 28 in Boston and at the AONL Inspiring Leaders Conference March 30 in Chicago.
• MRO releases a new report titled “2026 State of the Industry: Navigating Health Policy and Market Shifts with Smarter Data.”
• Navina will exhibit at the AMGA Annual Conference April 15-18 in Las Vegas.
• Jefferson Regional, Pine Bluff Medical Center goes live on Altera Digital Health’s Sunrise 25.1.

Blog Posts

• Labs at the next level: How AI smart ordering supports busy clinicians (Altera Digital Health)
• A Guide To Electronic Health Record (EHR) Integration (Arcadia)
• The Prescription Got to the Pharmacy. So Why Can’t It Be Filled? (DrFirst)
• Meeting the moment: Redefining the impact of managed services (Cardamom)
• The Strong Partnerships and Talent Strategies Healthcare CIOs Need (CereCore)
• All In on Innovation at HIMSS (Ellkay)
• New York Social Care Summit: Highlights from the Empire State (Findhelp)
• FinThrive Insights From HFMA RCC 2026: Revenue Cycle Trends (FinThrive)
• The KPI Reality Check: Why Your Current Metrics Might Be Stalling Your AI Transformation (Five9)
• From SLAs to XLAs: Why Speed Is No Longer Enough in Healthcare IT (HCTec)
• HIMSS26: Top 5 Takeaways from Healthcare’s Biggest Conference (HealthMark Group)
• From clipboards to dQMs: What HIMSS26 just told us about healthcare’s next operating system (Healthmonix)
• Meditech at HIMSS26: Intelligent interoperability and AI converge to future-proof healthcare (Meditech)
• 7 Healthcare IT Analyst Candidate Résumé Tips to Get The Job (Med Tech Solutions)

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